Does your heart always rush towards buying a new book whenever you enter the market? But don't you think there is already a huge list of books on your shelf that you have not read yet from your book subscription? So what is there that attracts us towards buying more than what we read? Let us find out today.
The Psychology Behind
When we buy a book, it is not just about getting a single item to put on our shelf but also it opens a world of possibilities to us. On adding a new book to our bookshelf, our brain opens psychologically and we feel that we have made a good investment in future knowledge, growth, and entertainment. Psychology says that there is a concept involved that we call as prospective thinking. It means that the human brain has a habit of thinking about the future and preparing for it beforehand. So the habit that we have of buying new books comes from the same idea that we want ourselves to be prepared for the coming future in case we will be required to expand our horizons and learn a new skill that might help us somehow in the coming time.
Building personal libraries
For many people, building a personal library is their passion. That's why they just keep on buying more and more work to add to their shelves. And when there is passion attached to something, it becomes a part of our personal life and this is exactly from where we start relating our libraries and books to ourselves. So whenever someone buys a new book, it becomes a part of their domain, no matter if they read it or not. This is one of the major and personal psychological reasons why people are more inclined towards buying books rather than reading them.
Literary FOMO
The human brain also works around the concept of FOMO (fear of missing out). Remember the last time your friends bought the latest book? Didn't you also feel craving to buy the same for yourself? Yes, this is what we call the fear of missing out. And it is also a proper psychological aspect that attracts a person to buy a new book by coming into the impact of others doing the same thing.
Who we want to be vs. who we are
Think to yourself what kind of books you like reading. Are they related to what you want to become? In maximum cases, the answer will come a ‘yes.’ And here we go. Book hoarding is a form of aspirational buying as well. People get involved in buying those books that align with what they want to become in the future.
Conclusion
Overall, the human habit of buying more books than reading is completely related to psychology. On getting a new book to add to the shelf, it becomes a part of our personal life and we get attached to it very personally. It is related to avoiding desires that we want to accomplish in the future, our fears that are holding our past, and our aspirations that we are looking to complete in the present.
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